RFD: kernel-devel package improvements

Mon Apr 4 03:45:46 UTC 2005

On Sun, 3 Apr 2005, Ville Skyttä wrote:

> Does not matter.  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/147553
> 
> # rpm -q --qf "%{name}-%{version}-%{release}.%{arch}\n" kernel-devel
> kernel-devel-2.6.11-1.1225_FC4.i686
> # rpm -ivh kernel-devel-2.6.11-1.1225_FC4.i586.rpm
> Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
>         package kernel-devel-2.6.11-1.1225_FC4 is already installed

I am inclined to just not fix this - how important is it to
build the external kernel modules for i586 ?

This multi-arch issue should not happen with i686 vs x86-64,
or with ppc vs ppc64, because RPM knows that those architectures
really are different, and it should be able to just install the
kernel-devel packages side by side.

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